The former though is specifically what I see no use for. Do you have a specific use case in mind that cannot be addressed by other mechanisms (Tuple, dynamic-instantiation, etc)?
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 12:38 AM Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We definitely need to address the ResultTranformer. > Only the former method is what we should be exposing, the latter being > used only in one particular use case, so that should be addressed by a > different contract. > > This way we could provide a ResultTransformer using a lambda, which is not > possible today. > > Vlad > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> > wrote: > >> Another legacy concept I'd like to revisit as we move to 6.0 is the >> Hibernate ResultTransformer. I'd argue that ResultTransformer is no >> longer >> needed, especially in it's current form. >> >> Specifically, ResultTransformer defines 2 distinct ways to transform the >> results of a query: >> >> 1. `#transformTuple` - this method operates on each "row" of the >> result, > > >> allowing the user to transform the Object[] into some other structure. >> This is specifically the one I see no value in moving forward. Between >> dynamic-instantiation, Tuple-handling, etc I think users have the >> needed >> capabilities to transform the query result tuples. >> > 2. `#transformList` - this one operates on the query result as a whole > > >> (unless scroll/iterate are used). This method at least adds something >> that >> cannot be done in another way. But I'd still personally question its >> overall usefulness. >> >> Does anyone have an argument for continuing to support either of these? >> Personally, I propose just dropping the ResultTransformer support >> altogether. >> > _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev